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Ragged Words' EOD list

http://raggedwords.com/content/top-100-albums-2000s

1/ Arcade Fire - Funeral
2/ The Strokes - Is This It
3/ Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4/ Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
5/ Radiohead - Kid A
6/ Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7/ Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
8/ Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
9/ Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
10/ White Stripes - White Blood Cells
11/ Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
12/ Four Tet - Rounds
13/ Avalanches - Since I Left You
14/ LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
15/ Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
16/ Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
17/ Daft Punk - Discovery
18/ Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
19/ Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
20/ Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
21/ Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
22/ Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
23/ Panda Bear - Person Pitch
24/ Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists
25/ Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of The Wilderbeast
26/ Joanna Newsom - Ys
27/ Interpol - Antics
28/ Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
29/ PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
30/ Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
31/ Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
32/ QOTSA - Rated R
33/ Doves - Lost Souls
34/ Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
35/ Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
36/ Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
37/ Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
38/ Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
39/ Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
40/ The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
41/ Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
42/ The Hold Steady - Girls And Boys In America
43/ Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
44/ Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
45/ Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
46/ The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches
47/ Radiohead - Amnesiac
48/ Animal Collective - Feels
49/ Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
50/ Radiohead - In Rainbows
51/ Portishead - Third
52/ Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
53/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
54/ The National - Boxer
55/ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!!, Lazarus, Dig!!!
56/ My Morning Jacket - Z
57/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
58/ Beach House - Devotion
59/ Jens Lenkman - Oh, You're So Silent
60/ At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
61/ The XX - XX
62/ Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Master And Everyone
63/ Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
64/ Burial - Untrue
65/ The Streets - Original Pirate Material
66/ The National - Alligator
67/ Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
68/ QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf
69/ Devendra Banheart - Rejoicing In The Hands
70/ Aimee Mann - Bachelor No.2
71/ M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
72/ Girls - Album
73/ Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
74/ Cat Power - You Are Free
75/ The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
76/ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abbaitor Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
77/ Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
78/ Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
79/ Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
80/ My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
81/ Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
82/ Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
83/ Outkast - Stankonia
84/ Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
85/ The National - Sad Songs For Dirty
86/ Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
87/ Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
88/ The Roots - Phrenology
89/ Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day
90/ Jens Lenkman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
91/ Four Tet - Pause
92/ Super Furry Animals - Mwng
93/ MF Doom - Mmm...Food!
94/ Field Music - Tones Of Town
95/ LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
96/ The Knife - Deep Cuts
97/ Stars Of The Lid - ...And The Refinement Of Their Decline
98/ Madvillain - Madvillainy
99/ Anthony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
100/ David Kitt - The Big Romance

This is one of, if not my utmost, favourite EOD list so far. Despite pitching in the obscure domain further down the lower leagues (Stars Of The Lid a welcome addition nonetheless) and making a few odd picks (Deep Cuts but no Silent Shout? Elephant conspicuous in its absence too.) it's a great list that isn't afraid to leave in some mainstream big hitters and allows for multiple records per artist - Favourite Worst Nightmare and Antics, for example, both make appearances rather than be shunned by their predecessors and fully merit their high rankings. On a personal level the upper regions echo my taste heavily, and though it leans a bit heavily on an indie-rock tip (no College Dropout? the fuck outta here!) I think the top 10 just looks brilliant and is indicative of the decade in a good way - it eschews the prevalent nostalgia for early-00s records that has plagued a couple of EOD lists as well.

Anyway, there it is.

Re: Ragged Words' EOD list

I can't believe The National's Boxer isn't getting more attention on these EOD lists.

Re: Ragged Words' EOD list

I'd agree that this list is pretty damn good. It has both albums by The National, which needs all the help they can get. I think I'll check out some of the stuff on this list that's unfamiliar to me - it's likely to be at least pretty interesting.